Ingolstadt, July 25, 2014 – Automotive manufacturers AUDI AG, BMW Group and Daimler AG together launched an initiative within the openMDM Working Group under the Eclipse Foundation (www.eclipse.org), which aims to promote the development and distribution of open source tools for measurement data management based on the ASAM ODS standard (www.asam.net). Other founding members are the software companies GIGATRONIK GmbH, science + computing ag, Canoo Engineering AG, HighQSoft GmbH and Peak Solution GmbH.